THE RELIGIONS OF EGYPT AND BABYLON. * IT is not often that one finds Professor Sayce in so tentative a mood as he displays in these extremely interesting and scholarly lectures....

LONDON : JUNE 271h, 1903.

RICHARDSON'S is a reputation that will never die so long as there is a copy of one of his novels within reach of a reader endowed with frank intelligence, lively interest in...

THE NAVAL ANNUAL. The Naval Annual. Edited by T. A. Brassey. ((Giffin and Co. 15s.)—The uew naval scheme is perhaps the most interesting subject treated in this year's Annual....

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The Discoveries of the Norsemen in America. By J. Fischer, S.J., and B. H. Soulsby. (H. Stevens, Son, and Stiles. 8s.)—Here we are given all the available information collected...

The Mid - Eighteenth Century. By J. H. Millar. " Periods of European Literature," edited by Professor Saintabury, Vol. IX. (Blackwood and Sons. 5s. net.)—The period covered by...

The Fairchild Family. By Mrs. Sherwood. Edited by Mary E. Palgrave. Illustrated by Florence M. Rudland. (Wells Gardner and Co. 6s.)—In appraising the merits of old children's...

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Letters of Mlle. de Lespinasse, with Notes on her Life and Character. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—The Anglo-Saxon mind can scarcely share the...

Stories from English History. By the Rev. A. J. Church, M.A. (Seeley and Co. 5s.)—We welcome a new edition, charmingly illustrated, of Professor Church's Stories from English...

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K ING PETER arrived at Belgrade on Wednesday, and was received with enthusiasm by the soldiery ; but his position is scarcely a pleasant one. The British, French, Italian,...

to the successes of the Socialists in the country con- stituencies as the most ominous fact of the German elections. The latest telegrams as to the second ballots in Germany...

Saturday. It was full of praise of the " great Emperor " William I., who, his grandson declared, would here- after occupy in Germany the place occupied by Frederick Barbarossa....

war against the Church. He has already, as we learn from a despatch in the Yellow-book, informed the Pope that the Concordat, " that pact of religious appeasement signed by the...

The Kossuth party, availing itself of the keen wish in Hungary for a national as distinguished from an Imperial Army, obstructed some Bills increasing the Artillery till they...

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reading of his Bill for abolishing the Declaration required to be made by the Sovereign at his accession. The debate was chiefly remarkable for a most able and impressive speech...

in Committee, Mr. Joseph Walton moving a new clause to repeal the export-duty on coal. Various representatives of the mining centres having supported the Motion on the ground...

strong General Order forbidding soldiers to assault natives. He says that there have been many complaints of such cases lately, " sometimes with fatal results," and he announces...

Irish Land Bill, the effect of which will be to remove the objections of the Nationalist Members, while at the same time not alienating the support of the landlords for the...

has telegraphed to the War Office under date June 23rd announcing that he has reached Damot with- out opposition. He proposes to leave "an adequate garrison" there, but march...

moved the rejection of Clause 1, which provides for the re- mission of the Corn-duty. Mr. Chaplin denounced the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer for entering into an unnatural...

introduced into the House of Lords during the coming week. Its pro- visions have not been disclosed, but we may say that for ourselves we believe that the only satisfactory...

determined they must have Chinese labour, and that ordinances will soon be adopted authorising the importation of Chinamen under very strict conditions against their settlement....

Catholic Communion in England, died at Mill Hill on Friday week at the age of seventy-one. Sprung from an ancient Welsh family which had never become Protestant, he was from...

in any way notable. There are four new Peers,—Mr. Michael . Biddulph, a partner in Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., the well-known bankers, who sat in Parliament for several years as a...

House of Commons on Wednesday under the chairman- ship of Sir Herbert Maxwell, and passed a resolution welcoming the promised inquiry, and supporting the Govern. ment in their...

are not going to be accepted offhand and at their face value. In the Morning Post of Monday, for example, there is an excellent letter on the new fiscal policy from the Duke of...

ac- cused officers being declared " not guilty " by the Court-Martial which tried them. We presume that the Court considered that the accused had already atoned for their...

Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 914.

THE GENERAL ELECTION AFTER NEXT. T4 ORD GOSCHEN in his recent speech accused Mr. Chamberlain of indulging in a gamble with the food of the people. That his scheme no doubt is ;...

a most an- noying piece of business. Nobody wants Somali- land, or would give a sovereign for it in fee-simple ; yet here we are pledged to a petty war which may cost millions...

T HE immense increase in the German Socialist vote, striking as it is, will not, we imagine, produce any immediate, far less any dramatic, consequences. The remaining groups in...

W E are always hearing of the false prophecies made by Mr. Cobden as to the victories that Free-trade was going to win abroad, and as to its ultimate adoption by the whole...

- 1 - 4 ITTLE did the farmer Nichol — Christian name un- known, but possibly Patrick—who when ploughing on the shores of Lough Foyle struck something hard at the bottom of the...

C ASUAL moralists take different views of the moral turpitude of debt. They call a debtor anything between a thief and a careless fellow. The former verdict is, of course, too...

T HE whole sky turned pallid, merging into greenish hues on its lower arc towards the south-west, where the fore- runner of the storm was visible, a rising continent of slate-...

T HE Berlin correspondent of the Standard sends a précis of an interesting lecture delivered before the Geological Society of Berlin on the water-pools of the Kalahari Desert....

THE NEW PROTECTION. [To TER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—Since I last wrote to you (Spectator, June 13th) I have been endeavouring to reduce the aspiration after Pro-...

the letter signed " Open Mind" in the Spectator of June 20th you say :—" We are Free-traders in the sense hitherto universally accepted in England when we advocate the levying...

Till "SascrAroa..1 SIR,—Of those who personally knew and valued William Patrick Adam both as man and statesman (I say " states- man," for if any man had in him the making of a...

SIR, —As your fairness to those who differ from your views is proverbial, I venture to submit to your attention the following answer to your attack upon Mr. Chamberlain's new...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sr11, -- The following quotation from a letter written by Baron Taube to Count Axel Fersen on September 9th, 1791, is not without interest...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There are two principal reasons why the observance of the industrial laws continues to be partial and intermittent,— in the first...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—In view of the misleading statements circulated at the present time by the Protectionists, the following simple illustration as to the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Srn,—Your article on this subject in the Spectator of June 20th should be reprinted as a leaflet. The concluding paragraph contains the sum...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR") SIR,—With reference to "Britisher's " letter re Chinese and South Africa which appeared in the Spectator of April 25th, I should like to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your correspondent "Eumaeus" writes in the Spectator of June 20th with a light heart of taking one or two eggs out of six robins' nests....

PETRARCH (AS DESCRIBED IN HIS OWN WORDS—Epist. de Rebus Familiaribus, VI. 3). You shall behold a man from morn till eve Roaming alone, turf, hill, and fountain haunting, Shy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Many " honour men " must have felt keenly how mis- leading are the degrees conferred by the Universities in these days. Long ago, to be...

A CENTURY OF FRENCH MUSIC.* THE task essayed by Mr. Hervey in his contribution to the "Music in the Nineteenth Century" series—that of tracing the part played by France in the...

WESLEY AND HIS PREACHERS.* TO-MORROW those who are proud to call themselves the disciples of John Wesley will be celebrating the bicentenary of his birth. And in anticipation...

MB. BLACK'S Life of Lord Dufferin is an industrious piece of journalism. It is padded out with many observations which have but a remote relation to the subject of the book. But...

call in question the rare natural qualities of Mr. Chesterton's critical work, if we say that the effort to keep up a reputation for originality is perhaps a little too...

which has already been called for, is the first instalment of a series of twelve volumes intended to cover almost exhaustively the whole range of modern history. These volumes...

QUESTIONABLE SHAPES.* Ma. HOWELLS belongs to that favoured class of novelists in whom fertility of production seems to exert no impairing influence on the quality of the work...

Benson has succeeded in making his new story of the American Civil War very picturesque. The reader in the course of the book comes to feel a real attachment for Old Squire, the...

(Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—There is a certain smartness, we may say 'vigour, in Major Drury's way of telling his story, if only be had a story to tell. This is the weak point of...

Principles. By the Rev. W. C. E. Newbolt and the Rev. Darwell Stone. (Long- mans and Co. 2s. net.)—There are many things in this pamphlet on which we would willingly comment,...

Morrison's detective stories are ingenious, but we cannot help thinking that the writing of them is rather a waste of his powers. Other people can construct stories of...

Crespigny. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—This book is a historical romance of the time of "Bloody Mary." It is fairly well constructed, though on rather commonplace lines. The reader,...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Some Thoughts on the Incarnation. By J. A. Robinson, D.D. (Longmans...

consisting of Selections from the Version by Ichabod Charles Wright (of Nottingham), with an Argument of the Three Parts of the " Divine Comedy "; and An Old English Miscellany,...

Orne Jewett. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—These eight stories show remarkably delicate workmanship. Miss Jewett knows exactly what to say and what not to say, a gift which...

net.)—This is a highly interesting book to which we would gladly give more space if topics of the present moment did not make such large claims. Channing exemplified a very...

in last week's issue that Messrs. Methuen's edition of Euphranor was the only pocket edition available, Messrs. Mac- millan have written to us to point out that Euphranor is...

need hardly say that the objects of this Associa- tion are to make as nearly universal as may be the physical and the moral training which are to be attained by drill. We cannot...

R. R. C. Gregory. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d.)—We may praise this book without reserve ; it is a perfect treasury of interesting and valuable knowledge. It is meant, in the first...

Co. 6s. net.)—It is very kind of an expert in the art and science of anglers to tell his secrets to the unlearned. They will, it is true, fail to reap the full profit from them....

and edited by Laurie Magnus, M.A., and Cecil Headlam, NA.; also Flowers of the Cave, by the same editors (Routledge and Sons, 4s. 6d. net each vol.) (The " Cave," we may...

38. 6d. net.)—Mr. Protheroe's experiences date back to a somewhat remote past, as remoteness is reckoned nowadays. In his first voyage his ship, which he had newly joined as an...